Hi,
I’ve got a tar.gz file on a CD that I was trying to zcat | pax -rv onto
a drive, and as it nears completion it produces an IO error. The CD is one
that I made. I’ve burned a few other copies of the CD during my testing and
each one also produces an IO error (in roughly the same place).
I copied the tar.gz file to my local drive, ran zcat | pax -rv on it,
and no errors were produced. I also extracted the file over the network,
and it worked fine. So I (again) burned another CD (to test), and it
failed. I tried a few other commands as well, like cksum, and they produce
IO errors. I’ve never seen this before, so I’m curious as to what this
might be? Anybody have a clue as to what might be wrong?
The CDs I’m using are 80min (700MB). The size of the image I’m burning
onto them is 325MB. I’m running 4.25E on my system.
TIA,
Ron
We have seen this also. I presume you are making the cd image with mkisofs.
What we did to circumvent the problem was to create a dummy file that sorted (alphabetically) last eg /zzz/zzz
that was placed into the cd image. We have had no problems since.
I was thinking of trying the same thing. The file I put on was the most
recent (not alphabetically the last), but I had a feeling something like
that might be the cause of the problem. I went through many other files
and none produed the same problem.
Did your dummy file have a certain size?
“Ian Cannon” <nospam@forums.openqnx.com> wrote in message
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We have seen this also. I presume you are making the cd image with
mkisofs.
What we did to circumvent the problem was to create a dummy file that
sorted (alphabetically) last eg /zzz/zzz
that was placed into the cd image. We have had no problems since.
I was thinking of trying the same thing. The file I
put on was the most
recent (not alphabetically the last), but I had a
feeling something like
that might be the cause of the problem. I went
through many other files
and none produed the same problem.
Did your dummy file have a certain size?
around 0.5 Mb. we just renamed the boot image
“Ian Cannon” <> nospam@forums.openqnx.com> > wrote in
message
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We have seen this also. I presume you are making
the cd image with
mkisofs.
What we did to circumvent the problem was to create
a dummy file that
sorted (alphabetically) last eg /zzz/zzz
that was placed into the cd image. We have had no
problems since.